Friday, June 26, 2015

Star Mountain Magic

Oh the joy of coming back and the reverence I have for this place called Star Mt. After a record rainfall in May (broke records back to 101 years ago) everything is brilliantly green and wildflowers are going crazy.

The wildlife report as it stands now: coyote howling in the night, deer all around but no Flap yet, lots of elk sightings off Star Mt. with only one sighting going into our woods, slow moving grouse, and sadly but a fraction of the hummingbirds are around. They apparently made off to other parts when we came back a month later than normal. The Rufus (aggressive orange ones) are arriving now as usual and probably surprised at how easy it is to take over the feeders.

Lots of work going on here this week both physical and mental (Mark's conference calls with his job) and massive spring cleaning and yard work. We left when there was still snow on the ground so a lot to do. Nothing like getting you acclimated quickly!

There are always changes in restaurant and retail in our area when we leave. We tried the newest breakfast/lunch place in Gunnison - Mom's Kitchen. We say good! It's just down from the W, which is interesting as the owner used to waitress there. It's their second venture in the city as they bought Piezan's a year or so ago obviously having success. Next, haven't visited yet but Gunnison now has a mini donut place (Niky's Mini Donuts) opened by a family from Houston who've made the big move out here. A second location in Crested Butte is coming.

This will be the last post with photos from my old camera. I've had it two years and a month ago it developed a hard black edge line that shows up in my fully zoomed out photos. You can see what I'm talking about in the grouse photo above. I've been cropping out but that ends up a tedious thing and ultimately decided time for a new one. It's the updated version of what I had, a Panasonic DMC-ZS45. This has all the same features plus selfie capability and wifi. We'll see how much I use of either.

So excited as we have family arriving Monday and Wednesday. Anne and family including my mother from Seattle and George and Linda from CO Springs.  Fun times will be had!

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